She told me her soon-to-be-Ex and her had been recently fucking. OK, that's not "too" weird. My Ex had come over and fucked me (another story). Oh, ...t gets better.Then she said they were fucking in bed, and neighbor k*ds were watching them as they fucked. (I almost asked if they said something to those "k*ds" or encouraged them, or watched them --- but I didn't.)Then she said I should come over to her place (Ex had left) and fuck there. (Hummm. I don't know about that arrangement; giving a. It was the first time she’d expressed any doubt about our chemistry and it made me wonder if she might be thinking about backing out altogether. But that small doubt was easily drown in a sea of imagined fucking and sucking she and I had already shared in fantasy as well as the pictures we’d shared of each other in various sexual activities. My mind was swimming in this sea as I sent my carry-on through the x-ray machine and walked barefoot through the metal detector. I had forgotten my belt. Hephaestus was the home of House Jacobs and located relatively close to the frontier, compared to other houses. Tortora station was on the edge of Imperial space and was built by all the houses as a common place to trade and launch exploration missions from. As such, each house had a representative on the station and it was considered a neutral zone during the occasional House conflict.They had instituted a watch system after their first day of travel and it was approaching the end of Logan's. It was pretty hot that August, and the weatherman indicated it would remain so for the first half of September. We had to take that into account as well. But we were diligent and stuck with our task, rehearsing steadily to make sure we sounded as good as we possibly could. Over the summer, we had more than a few comments about how professional and tight we sounded. I put that down to rehearsal and discipline.We used a large cooler that we parked on stage with cold water and some energy drinks.